Thread: Newbie needs help!!

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Damn Tech, you sure do know your stuff. Im looking to build a nice hp motor. Just never learned how to just setups together. Im new to this and it really interests me, but nobody ever tought me high hp motors. I know a little but not enough and everyone around here can only tell me about hondas ans imports

Well i was dead nuts on, took heads off, push rods are a lil bent and you can see where valves hitting pistons, JUST like i though it was. BUT my buddy who argued with me because he "knows his small blocks" insisted i was running low oil pressure and NO WAY were they hitting. I should done what i though was right and waited to put motor back together but i doubted myself.

Oh and tech its a hydo cam. and my car has a 4.11 posi, turbo 350 with a 3k stall.


Soooo back to step one, need heads, valve train, cam. maybe different pistons. oh well

What do you guys think about stroker motors, my buddy says they are garbage but he also though he knew what he was doing with this. I was thinking of a 12 to 1 .383 im aiming for something thats border line streetable with a nasty sound to it

Also could it be hitting because the degree was off?

With all due respect ..Your buddy is an idiot...A stroker motor requires more torque on the head bolts than his honda makes..You have done a wise thing by coming here for advice...The guys here know their stuff....You cannot just throw a bunch of Hipo stuff together and make it work..Some guy that knows his stuff will blow your doors off with stock stuff that's campatible and correctly adjusted..

The limit for a streetable motor will be the fuel. What's available at the pump where you live?

If you want to play, let's play, but you have to determine if you want to start with a 350 small block, 383 small block, 400 small block or step up and run with the big boys with a big block. If you want to go with a 350 or 383, I strongly suggest starting with a roller cam, one-piece seal block. You can usually score 'em locally for around a hundred bucks, sometimes with the roller lifters and dog bones thrown in on the deal. If bare block, the lifters, bones and spider can be scored on ebay pretty reasonably. Most anyone on this forum can lay out the parts combination to achieve 500 hp and you can hand your idiot buddy his a** on a plate. You might also move up to an LS series small block.

email this guy and find out if this is a roller cam block.
http://gainesville.craigslist.org/pts/965590502.html

Call or email this guy and find out whether it was a rod or main that spun. Rod, ok. Main, junk.
http://gainesville.craigslist.org/pts/930568862.html

If you have a truck and are going to Jacksonville anyway, take an extra 50 bucks with you and buy this motor.....
http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/pts/957912200.html

Same with this one....
http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/pts/953758893.html
Hard to tell in the photo if the spider bosses are drilled and tapped (the three bosses running down the middle of the valley), but it looks to have the lifter bores machined for roller cam dog bones.

Call Billy and ask if he has or knows the whereabouts of a good roller cam block....
http://orlando.craigslist.org/pts/967639751.html

Call these guys and ask if they have any roller cam blocks or short blocks...
http://orlando.craigslist.org/pts/956437554.html

Put this guy in your favorites. Good shop. Know him from years ago on another forum....
http://orlando.craigslist.org/pts/953593850.html

Originally Posted by techinspector1

She has made suggestions about the projects when I have been stumped and has run to the parts store for me when I'm up to my elbows in axle grease and don't want to clean up to go.

I seem to remember something along those lines a few years ago.